Cerium-containing rare earth permanent magnet
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of rare earth permanent magnet materials, and particularly relates to a high-performance low-cost cerium-containing rare earth permanent magnet.
Background
In recent years, with the rapid development of fields such as new energy automobiles, wind power generation, high-efficiency energy-saving household appliances and the like, the demand for rare earth permanent magnet materials is increasing. The price of the high-abundance rare earth Ce is only 2.6% of PrNd, and the rare earth Ce with abundant reserves and low price is used for preparing the permanent magnet material, so that the cost can be greatly reduced, and the rare earth raw material which can be used for manufacturing the neodymium iron boron can be doubled. However, the internal natural disposition of the Ce 2Fe14 B compound can be obviously lower than Nd 2Fe14 B, and the addition of Ce in the NdFeB magnet can lead to obvious reduction of the magnetic performance of the magnet (see the document IEEE.Trans.Magn.2014, 50:2102605). chinese patent CN104575920B proposes a rare earth permanent magnet and a preparation method thereof, wherein the magnet has higher coercive force when the Ce substitution amount is 24% -32%, and the residual magnetism Br, coercive force Hcj and magnetic energy product (BH) max of the magnet gradually decrease along with the increase of the Ce content when the Ce substitution amount is less than 24%. The application discloses a grain boundary diffusion cerium magnet containing REFe 2 phases and a preparation method thereof, which are proposed by Chinese patent CN 110148507B filed by the applicant in advance, wherein the Ce substitution amount is 20% -85%, and the original cerium magnet contains 2-14-1 main phases, REFe 2 phase and rare earth-rich phase, wherein the original magnet contains REFe 2 phase and rare earth-rich phase in the grain boundary, the rare earth-rich phase is generally Nd-rich phase, a part of Nd enters the grain boundary to form rare earth-rich phase and can not completely enter Nd 2Fe14 B main phase, the advantage of high natural disposition energy in Nd 2Fe14 B phase can not be fully exerted, the magnetic performance of the magnet is overall low, and when the Ce substitution amount is 20%, the residual magnetism Br of the magnet is only 12.59kGs, the magnetic energy product (BH) max is only 38.25MGOe. In the preparation process of the technical scheme, grain boundary diffusion treatment is carried out at 850-1000 ℃ by adopting methods such as coating, vapor deposition, electrophoretic deposition and magnetron sputtering, rare earth elements such as Tb, dy and the like and compounds thereof are diffused into the magnet, and a complex multiphase structure is formed in the magnet, so that the coercive force of the magnet is improved. The grain boundary diffusion rare earth elements add extra technological processes, increase the raw material investment and manufacturing cost of the magnet, and the grain boundary diffusion cannot increase the remanence Br and magnetic energy product (BH) max of the cerium-containing magnet, even slightly reduce.
Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the problems in the prior art, the invention aims to provide a cerium-containing rare earth permanent magnet, which is doped with high-abundance rare earth Ce in a neodymium-iron-boron magnet, compared with the existing neodymium-iron-boron magnet in the market, the cost is greatly reduced, but the magnetic property equivalent to that of the neodymium-iron-boron magnet can still be maintained.
In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides the following technical solutions:
A cerium-containing rare earth permanent magnet has a chemical general formula of (Ce xRE1-x)30Fe69.1- yB0.9TMy) in mass percent, wherein x is more than or equal to 0.018 and less than or equal to 0.18,0.5 and less than or equal to y is more than or equal to 2.5, RE is one or more of Pr, nd, dy, tb, ho, and TM is one or more of Ga, co, al, cu, nb, zr, ti, wherein rare earth Ce element for replacing RE exists in a grain boundary in a CeFe 2 phase form in the permanent magnet, and a main phase of the permanent magnet has a RE 2Fe14 B phase structure;
The cerium-containing rare earth permanent magnet is obtained through the steps of raw material preparation, rapid hardening sheet preparation, crushing and pulverizing, magnetic field orientation molding, sintering and heat treatment, wherein:
the sintering system in the sintering step is 1030-1060 ℃, the temperature is kept for 2-5 hours, and then the temperature is controlled to be lower than 200 ℃ at a speed of 20-30 ℃ per minute.
Preferably, y is 0.5-1.8.
Further preferably, y is 0.5 to 1.2.
The permanent magnet has the following combination of magnetic properties equivalent to those of a neodymium-iron-boron permanent magnet in a use state:
The residual magnetism Br is 14.35-14.50 kGs, the coercive force H cj is 12.21-12.50 kOe, and the magnetic energy product (BH) m is 50.15-51.57 MGOe.
A process for preparing the cerium-contained sintered rare-earth permanent magnet includes such steps as preparing quick-setting sheet, breaking to obtain powder, magnetic field orientation shaping, pressing, sintering and heat treating,
In the step of preparing raw materials, the raw materials are prepared according to the following magnet components, wherein the chemical general formula of the magnet components is (Ce xRE1-x)30Fe69.1-yB0.9TMy), x is more than or equal to 0.018 and less than or equal to 0.18,0.5 and y is more than or equal to 2.5, RE is one or more of Pr, nd, dy, tb, ho, and TM is one or more of Ga, co, al, cu, nb, zr, ti;
In the sintering and heat treatment steps, placing the blank into a high-vacuum sintering furnace for sintering, wherein the sintering temperature is 1030-1060 ℃, preserving heat for 2-5 hours, then cooling to below 200 ℃ at a speed of 20-30 ℃ per minute, and then carrying out tempering heat treatment at 900-920 ℃ and 450-650 ℃ for 2 hours respectively;
In the permanent magnet obtained by the method, rare earth Ce element for replacing RE exists in a CeFe 2 phase form at a crystal boundary, and the main phase of the permanent magnet has a RE 2Fe14 B phase structure.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
In the prior art, the technical difficulty in preparing the high-performance low-cost cerium-containing rare earth permanent magnet is that the magnetic performance of the magnet is obviously reduced due to the addition of Ce in the neodymium-iron-boron magnet because the inner natural disposition of the Ce 2Fe14 B compound can be obviously lower than Nd 2Fe14 B (IEEE.Trans.Magn.2014, 50:2102605).
The rare earth permanent magnet has the advantages that the iron content is relatively excessive in the alloy component design of the rare earth permanent magnet, so that rare earth Ce does not enter or enters a RE 2Fe14 B magnetic main phase, but exists at a grain boundary in the form of CeFe 2 phase, neodymium in the magnet alloy is mainly remained in the RE 2Fe14 B main phase, so that the magnet has high remanence, simultaneously, a small amount of Ga, co, al, cu, nb, zr, ti and other doping elements are added, the addition amount of the doping elements is reasonably designed, the microstructure of the cerium-containing permanent magnet is improved, the grain boundary agglomeration of CeFe 2 phases is avoided (see figure 1 in the specification), and finally, when the addition amount of cerium in the magnet is in a certain component range, namely x is more than or equal to 0.018 and less than or equal to 0.18, and the magnet can still be kept to have higher magnetic performance. The invention has significant cost and price advantages.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the microstructure of a cerium-containing rare earth permanent magnet of the present invention, wherein the dark gray phase is the RE 2Fe14 B main phase and the light gray phase is the CeFe 2 phase.
Detailed Description
The invention will be further described with reference to the drawings and examples.
A rare earth permanent magnet containing cerium has a chemical general formula of (Ce xRE1-x)30Fe69.1-yB0.9TMy), wherein x is more than or equal to 0.018 and less than or equal to 0.18,0.5, y is more than or equal to 2.5, RE is one or more of Pr, nd, dy, tb, ho, and TM is one or more of Ga, co, al, cu, nb, zr, ti.
Preferably, RE is one or two rare earth elements of Pr and Nd.
Preferably, the TM content is 0.5-1.8, i.e. 0.5.ltoreq.b.ltoreq.1.8.
Further preferably, the TM content is 0.5 to 1.2, i.e., 0.5.ltoreq.b.ltoreq.1.2.
The main phase of the permanent magnet with the component ratio is RE 2Fe14 B phase, and the grain boundary phase is CeFe 2 phase.
The permanent magnet is prepared through the following steps of preparing quick-setting tablets, crushing and pulverizing, magnetic field orientation forming and pressing, sintering and heat treatment.
The preparation method comprises the following steps:
s1, preparing raw materials according to design components.
S2, preparing quick-setting tablets, and smelting the prepared raw materials to prepare the quick-setting belt. Firstly, placing raw materials into a crucible of a rapid hardening furnace, carrying out vacuum induction melting under the protection of argon, keeping the temperature of 1400-1500 ℃ after the raw materials are fully melted to form alloy, and pouring the alloy liquid onto a water-cooled copper roller with the linear speed of 1.0-2.0 m/s to prepare the rapid hardening sheet with the average thickness of 0.28-0.32 mm.
S3, crushing and pulverizing, namely loading the rapid hardening tablets into a hydrogen crushing furnace, crushing hydrogen, absorbing hydrogen at the pressure of 0.1-0.2 MPa at room temperature, and then carrying out dehydrogenation treatment at the temperature of 500-600 ℃ for 2-6 hours. And adding a proper amount of antioxidant into the dehydrogenated powder, and respectively carrying out air flow grinding to obtain magnetic powder with the average granularity of 3.0-3.5 mu m.
S4, performing magnetic field orientation molding and pressing, namely performing orientation molding on magnetic powder in a 2T magnetic field press, and performing cold isostatic pressing to prepare a blank, wherein the density of the blank is 3.8-4.8 g/cm 3.
And S5, sintering and heat treatment, namely placing the blank into a high-vacuum sintering furnace for sintering, wherein the sintering temperature is 1030-1060 ℃, preserving heat for 4 hours, then cooling to below 200 ℃ at a speed of 20-30 ℃ per minute, and then respectively carrying out tempering heat treatment at 900-920 ℃ and 450-650 ℃ for 2 hours.
Example 1
A rare earth permanent magnet with a chemical formula of (Ce 0.018RE0.982)30Fe68.6B0.9TM0.5 (TM=Co, al, cu, zr; RE=Pr, nd) (wt.%) is prepared according to the above preparation method, wherein the Ce content in the rare earth permanent magnet is 1.8% of the total rare earth.
Example 2
A rare earth permanent magnet has a chemical formula (Ce0.18RE0.82)30Fe67.9B0.9TM1.2(TM=Co,Al,Cu,Ga,Nb;RE=Nd,Pr,Ho)(wt.%),, and the Ce content in the rare earth permanent magnet accounts for 18% of the total rare earth. The rare earth permanent magnet is prepared according to the preparation method.
Example 3
A rare earth permanent magnet has a chemical formula (Ce0.18RE0.82)30Fe67.3B0.9TM1.8(TM=Co,Al,Cu,Ga,Ti;RE=Nd,Pr,Dy)(wt.%),, and the Ce content in the rare earth permanent magnet accounts for 18% of the total rare earth. The rare earth permanent magnet is prepared according to the preparation method.
Comparative example 1
A rare earth permanent magnet having a chemical formula of RE 30Fe69B1.0 (re=nd, pr) (wt.%) and containing no Ce was prepared in the same manner as in examples 1 to 3.
Column samples of 10X 10mm were wire cut on the rare earth permanent magnets of comparative example 1 and examples 1-3, and the magnetic properties of the magnets were measured using a NIM-2000HF rare earth permanent magnet standard measuring device, and the magnetic properties test data are shown in Table 1.
Table 1 magnetic property test data of rare earth permanent magnets of comparative example 1 and examples 1 to 3
| Numbering device |
Ce content (%) |
Br/kGs |
Hcj/kOe |
(BH)m/MGOe |
| Comparative example 1 |
0 |
14.32 |
12.19 |
49.58 |
| Example 1 |
1.8 |
14.50 |
12.21 |
51.57 |
| Example 2 |
18 |
14.38 |
12.25 |
50.40 |
| Example 3 |
18 |
14.35 |
12.50 |
50.15 |
The cerium-containing rare earth permanent magnet provided by the invention has the advantages that rare earth Ce does not enter or enters the RE 2Fe14 B magnetic main phase less through reasonable component design, so that the magnetic performance of the magnet can be still maintained when the cerium addition amount in the magnet is within a certain component range, namely x is more than or equal to 0.018 and less than or equal to 0.18, and the residual magnetism, coercive force and magnetic energy product are not reduced. Compared with the existing neodymium-iron-boron permanent magnets in the market, the rare earth permanent magnet has the advantages of greatly reduced cost and obvious cost and price.
The foregoing examples illustrate only a few embodiments of the invention and are described in detail herein without thereby limiting the scope of the invention.